I was not a fan of this book. It does show literary skill, but I didn't care about any of the characters and the disparate elements of the book did not come together in a coherent whole for me.I'm not sure that literature professors should write fiction. It all becomes very literary and game playi...
Finished with an overwhelming sense that much of the book went over my head, but then that's what I get for skipping most of the poetry (I know, I know), though not the letters and made-up fairytales - I have some self control, I guess.Had it not been a mystery, I doubt I would have finished it. Muc...
What a lovely book. I am not as intelligent as the author, though I have my own forays in to academia and postmodernism and such, and I was not able to read the long poetry with the attention that it deserved. The ending was...surprisingly pat, though satisfying, and worth the time spent.
So that was...interesting if eventually tedious. Great effect with the endless layered - and, well, duh, ultimately 4th wall - analysis of life recorded as text, devolving to the attempt to live life as text. I am displeased by the book's ultimate forgiveness of the...inadequacy of it's male charact...
It was a slow read, but I really loved the details that went in this. A beautiful tale of a pair of poets in the 1800's but also the tale of a pair of poets in current times. The way their journey's parallel each other is so interesting. A mystery told through love letters and poetry. A great journe...
I did enjoy this book, but it has its weaknesses. Not being all that much into poetry, I found the long poems excruciatingly boring. I am no judge of poetry, but they didn't look very good to me... The idea and the story is very good, but the constant sneering remarks about the American feminists go...
ENCOUNTER ONE:FILM - You know how it is sometimes, so much to do and a very limited space of time such as cleaning a sticky kitchen floor after cooking. I bring out the mop and bucket and announce 'a lick and a promise' will do for now.I have just watched the film Possession and it is lovely, really...
This was a very hard book to read - actually, it's dense. The fact that it's contain a lot of poetry also made it a little more difficult for my progress in the reading, for I don't always grasp all the meaning in the poetry, and this is very important to understand the story being told. But despite...
This book was way too smart for its own good.Story was great, narration and intertwining of the plots perfect, but the choice of words and the characters themselves (all of them) were so scholarly perfect, cold and distant.The author tried so painfully hard to show her eloquence and her meticulous k...
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